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You can refer my this column in ZDNet Korea.

I introduced korean servces with web 2.0 concepts. 1. User paticipation - Ohmynews: http://www.ohmynews.com - an alternative media with citizenship reporters - Cyworld: http://www.cyworld.com - an widely spreading social network service - Daum Agora: http://agora.media.daum.net - a bulletin board system for issues. - Naver Blog: http://blog.naver.com - an information clipping based blog service. 2. Blogging - Egloos : http://egloos.com - independant blogging service. - Allblog: http://www.allblog.net - meta blogging service. - Tattertools: http://tattertools.com - popular blogging tool. 3. Collective Intelligence - Naver Knowledge In: http://kin.naver.com - Q/A based information database - Yahoo! Hub: http://kr.hub.yahoo.com - Tagging based bookmarking. - Daum Pie: http://pie.daum.net - collective photo upload service. - Eolin : ...

This article is an epilogue of Web 2.0 Conference journey. The concept of web 2.0 was same of TBL's primary thought in 1993. So I think web2.0 is the homeing instinct against centralization such as portal. Refer to this article of ZDNet in korean.

There are many beta services. How to succeed with beta services? 1. Closed based viral marketing for opnion leader (major bloggers, early-adopters) 2. Very rapid response and feedback with beta users. 3. Let them join to make addtional services with open api. 4. Protect sensibility of beta users. (It's harmful ignorance such as Yahoo and Flickr's ID integration.) Beta services must satisfy users with innovation and core competance. Refer to this article of ZDNet in korean.

It's summary of new remarkable concept nowadays. 1. Semantic Web: RSS, Blog, RDF 2. Rich Internet Application: Ajax, Widget, Firefox Extensions 3. Desktop Application: Google/MSN/Hotbot Desktop, Picasa, Keyhole Refer to this article of ZDNet in korean.

It's summary of concept and examples for Longtail Theory. To succeed with long tail concept, it must give their authority of user generated data. Freedom of user action makes many intractions in long tail. Refer to this article of ZDNet in korean.

How to curry favor with developers? I thought marketing strategies toward developers for taking good man. 1. Be trustable, and it will be taken. Google has promoted its technology power including page rank, clustering, google file system and web services apis. Many of developers believe Google is very good place to develope new technologies such as new services of Google labs. It's similar with a religious fanatic. People believe not Google's services but Google itself. It's similar in MSN Sandbox. 2. Give, and it will be taken. They have given various open apis for making new toy with their services. Google Search ...